World: The Boys in the Bush

The black nationalist rebels of Zimbabwe Rhodesia have come a long way
to a ceasefire. In the early days of the war, when they crossed the
Zambezi River in dugout canoes carrying rusting shotguns and hunting
rifles to make hit-and-run attacks on isolated farms, a white Rhodesian
officer dismissed them as "a bunch of bloody garden boys."
Such sarcastic putdowns no longer apply. The Soviet-and Chinese-trained
"freedom fighters " of the Patriotic Front have been forged
into an efficient guerrilla force. Despite their edge in air power,
some of Zimbabwe Rhodesia's white-led array...